What a long weekend, the little tiny bathroom upstairs was insane, Ryan said there were 3 layers of renovation and each time they renovated they didn’t take anything down so we had more plaster from a tiny bathroom than we did from our entire kitchen demo!

Saturday morning Ryan got to work on the demo (starting with some dump runs which will never end!).  Our neighbor came over to play with alex for a couple of hours saturday so I was able to help here and there with demo and other things.  Ryan got most of the bathroom demo’d and what will be the laundry room, leaving the tub, toilet and floor (and miscellaneous unfinished demo) for sunday.

Then Ryan’s parents showed up for the evening and we all went out to dinner (Alli-boo got some great snuggles in at the restaurant and did great considering it was latish for her to be out and about).  No melt downs though and she got to try a sippy cup for the first time (which she grabbed right on to!).

Sunday Ryan and I finished up the bathroom demo and cleanup while Suzanne spent the day with Alli-boo and Mark installed our new railings he built!  They look amazing, and half of our porch is going to be the envy of the neighborhood for sure now!  Hopefully next summer the whole porch will be 🙂

Alli gets some snuggles from grandma at the restaurant

new railings – they look exactly like the original but better! We plan to stain that top piece of cedar to match the deck (maroon), the rest will be yellow.

from the street – half of the porch is done!

a view from the front

Unfortunately the bathroom took SO long to demo (come on it was a TINY bathroom, we didn’t think it would take more than half a day!) that we’re a bit behind on the renovation.  Plus one wall needs to come down completely and be rebuilt, these walls are just horrible.  So we have to come up with a game plan to get a few things done quickly and soon.

a start on the electrical – saturday morning

hard to tell but a bunch of the old plumbing and gas lines were removed (water capped in the basement). The only water in our house right now is in the downstairs bathroom running off our manifold and our washing machine in the basement!

upstairs bathroom all gone. notice the old doorway – always interesting finding different layouts to the house. this is a view from the master bathroom

a view from the hallway outside the bathroom.  This wall is the one that we’ll take down and rebuild.  It will have the washer/dryer on one side and the sink on the other side plumbing wise.